ok, you DO think it' the hardware. I will have the postgresql people put a note in the release notes about this
failure and move on. I have also seen old alpha and sparcs having the same problem.
Thanks again for your time
Jim
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
To: Jim Buttafuoco <jim@contactbda.com>
Cc: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:48:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Postgresql 8.0.1
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:43:27PM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> > my software matches yours below. Do you think it could be the
> > hardware floating point in this systems. It is a 710 and I think is
> > was made in the early 90's. I just find is odd that 7.4.X works fine.
> > Any chance you could make a deb for me to test here? that would rule
> > our my make/compile?
>
> It has nothing to do with the software compile, it has to do with the
> cpu and it's ability to execute the required instructions in hardware.
>
> Even if I were to give you a deb of postgresql the problems would still
> exist on your hardware. You need to figure out why those tests fail on
> *your* hardware.
>
> Either that, or I need to test on much older hardware :)
>
> c.
>
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